The commission charged with the promotion of lecturers to higher grades began examining the files of the lecturers on tuesday. Some 461 lecturers from the different State Universities in the country yesterday thronged the premises of the Higher Teachers Training College in Yaounde carrying huge bags of documents. The lecturers are currently defending their different publications, research thesis and other academic requirements in front of the Consultative Commission of University Institution Charged with the Examination and Promotion of Lecturers to higher grades dubbed CCIU in French.
The CCIU commission meeting in its 25th and 26th sessions is sitting from the 13th to the 16th of December and will examine, evaluate, validate and forward the documents of some 461 University lecturers to the Minister of Higher Education for eventual academic promotion. Amongst those seeking promotion are 246 assistant lecturers wishing to be promoted to the rank of lecturers, 166 lecturers to the grade of senior lecturers while 49 senior lecturers wishing to be promoted to the grade of professors. These lecturers seeking promotion will be graded on a score of 20. The CCIU commission will take into consideration the various publications and research works of each lecturer, administrative positions held; collaborative activities relating to their fields of work and their teaching experiences and courses.While opening the work of the CCIU commission, the Minister of Higher Education, Jacques Fame Ndongo urged the members to be transparent, rigorous, objective and efficient in examining the files of the lecturers. He added that CCIU members should be qualitative in grading the lecturers because competence and good performance is required from the lecturers in teaching students who upon graduation should be operational and ready for the job market.Besides the motivation package that comes with academic promotion of the lecturers, one of the lecturers seeking promotion underscored that the academic promotion will help them develop their career since it is the ambition of every lecturer to become a professor.
